On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:26:54AM -0400, Brian White wrote:
> > What would y'all think about having cgi-bin managed more like, umm:
> > /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
> > <packages dump CGI scripts in here willy-nilly>
> > ~wwwdata/cgi-bin/
> > <packages make symlinks to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/blah in postinst,
> > based on some setting in /etc/ somewhere>
> This has how I've done my site, but it's a pain.
It's only a pain because at the moment you have to make the symlinks
yourself, though, isn't it?
> Also, many webmasters
> run virtual websites and thus such symlinks would have to be done (or not
> done) for each webspace and that's not something can be easily automated.
Hrm. If they want the same CGI scripts on all their web sites, it's easy,
just point the cgi-bin alias for each vhost to the one directory.
If they want fine-grained control over their CGI scripts ("This client
only gets access to any given CGI script when it's approved by the
techies, and they pay $5"), then it's not an issue, since they'll be
making the symlinks by hand anyway.
It's only when they want fine-grained control of local CGI scripts,
but all the pre-packaged CGI scripts on each vhost, that we could do any
better. Of course, if they _really_ want that, they could just setup the
cgi-lib alias themselves. But I would've _thought_ the other two cases
would be the common ones, though?
Actually, fixing that'd be trivial too. Make your config file look like:
] $ cat /etc/cgi-scripts
] cgi-symlink-dirs="/var/www/cgi-bin /srv/foo.com/cgi-bin /srv/bar.com/cgi-bin"
and have an update-cgi script of some sort that does the parsing for you.
You could be a little bit more fine-grained too, if that was worthwhile.
Being able to easily disable a couple of prepackaged CGI scripts seems
like a common enough behaviour to optimise for.
Or maybe not, of course.
Cheers,
aj
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